German climate activists turned off crude oil pipelines at five locations, demanding the country look for other ways to reduce its dependence on Russian gas than starting new fossil fuel-based infrastructure projects such as deep-sea drilling. With claimed protests at sites near Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Greifswald and Klobenz, the activists specifically called out Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who in mid-March said the country should rethink its ban on allowing new drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea as it looks for new energy sources after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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